Dr.
Eugene Mallove died on May 14, 2004, aged 56. He was found at the end of his
driveway, beaten to death during an alleged robbery, having received several
blunt-force injuries to his head and neck. An autopsy ruled his death as murder.

Gene Mallove was an alternative energy expert who was working on viable energy
alternative programs. Well respected for his knowledge of cold fusion, he had
just published an "open letter" outlining the results of and reasons
for his last 15 years in the field of "new energy research." At
the time of his death Dr. Mallove was convinced it was only a matter of months
before the world would actually see a free energy device.

The following was written by Dr
Brian O'Leary, presented as a chapter
in his most recent book The
Energy Solution Revolution. Gene Mallove was
a very close friend of Brian O'Leary and we are most grateful to Brian for
his kind permission for this reprint of his work.

Chapter
3. Eugene Mallove versus the Stuckness of Scientists

"No
problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it."
---
Albert Einstein

“I
have had fifty years of experience in nuclear physics and I know what’s
possible and what’s not... I will not look at any more [cold fusion]
evidence! It’s all junk!”
---
Herman Feshbach, MIT professor, 1991

“I
hope you recognize that the late Professor Feshbach’s most unfortunate
and ill-considered reaction was fundamentally unscientific. It reminds
me of the Church leaders at the time of Galileo, who refused to look through
Galileo’s telescope at the Moon or at Jupiter because they “knew” that
nothing new could be seen. Yes, many modern scientists are filled with
catastrophic hubris; they have in many ways become mere “technicians
of science,” and guardians to what amounts to a pernicious “Holy
Writ.” Don’t bother me with the experimental evidence,
my theory can tell me what is possible and what is not!”
---
Eugene Mallove, www.infinite-energy.com,
2004

“For
the first time, experimental evidence was presented that shows conclusively
that excess heat can be reproduced on demand... on May 22, 2008, Professor
Yoshaki Arata at Osaka University (presented) experiments in which the
ratio of output to input heat has exceeded 2500%...
---
Scott Chubb, Infinite Energy, September-October,
2008

More
than any other source of breakthrough energy suppression, some of our most
powerful scientists lead the way. The world looks up to these high
priests of our culture for their yea-or-nay pronouncements of whether or
not any innovative energy is possible. Their answer is almost always “no” without
their even giving it a look. We are caught in the conundrum of credibility.
Only a few of us with a scientific background have broken free of this kind
of censorship, and can recognize the great promise of new energy research.

Nobody
knew and expressed this potential better than Dr. Eugene Mallove -- scientist,
journalist, educator, visionary, humanitarian, friend. On May 14, 2004,
he was murdered during an apparent robbery in the home of his parents. He
had been in the prime of his career at age 56.

This
is a great loss, which is just beginning to sink in. So prolific were
his writings, so passionate was his expression, so unique were his connections
between the scientific community and the solution energy vision, he will
be sorely missed. He is one of my heroes. It will be difficult for
anyone to fill his shoes.

As
chief science writer for MIT in 1989, Mallove first got into the new energy
game by investigating the controversial discovery of cold fusion by University
of Utah chemists Drs. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons. As
we saw in Chapter 1, his investigative reports on the attempts of MIT nuclear
physicists with a vested interest in hot fusion research (consuming tens
of billions of federal dollars) revealed that they fraudulently reported
their inability to replicate the original Pons-Fleischmann experiments.
Their "unadjusted" findings
actually reinforce the truth of the discovery. The efforts of these
scientists and other establishment researchers at major universities to discredit
cold fusion, under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy, will be
remembered as a sad lesson in scientific ethics.

Risking
everything, Gene Mallove resigned his position at MIT to reveal the truth
about cold fusion regardless of ridicule and financial insecurity. He
wrote the book Fire from Ice,
which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The facts revealed in that
work led the great writer Arthur C. Clarke to conclude that the suppression
of cold fusion was "one of the greatest scandals in the history of science."

Mallove
had been at it for fifteen productive years, before he was senselessly cut
down, what a loss! His authoritative books, his numerous editorials
and writings in the successful magazine Infinite
Energy, his support
of the work through the offices of his New Energy Foundation and New Energy
Research Laboratory, his many media appearances, and the excellent video/DVD "Fire
from Water" underline the boldness with which he struck out on his mission,
fearless about threats to his career which otherwise would have been secure.
He stood alone in organizing and supporting the cold fusion scientists, which
has grown into a community of several hundred researchers, many of whom came
from prestigious institutions, meeting annually and publishing in the best
peer-reviewed scientific journals. Against all odds, cold fusion has
become a viable science with great potential because of the tireless and
selfless efforts of this one man. He was a giant.

To
underline my remarks, just visit the web site www.infinite-energy.com. In
my 2003 book Re-Inheriting the Earth,
published before his death, the index shows more pages of citation to Mallove's
work (nine) than that of any other individual. He was very grounded
and did not venture into consciousness science as I had done. This
made him all the more credible. He never succumbed to the pseudo-scientific
claims of new age pundits and acted as a responsible scientist throughout. He
didn't play favorites but looked at all viable alternatives with intellectual
honesty, yet still from a Western scientific point of view.

His standards
were always very high. He did not buy into fads and politics. His rigor could
be very disarming to those toeing the line of the establishment and was an
inspiration to all fellow heretics. I not only stand in awe of his
achievements, I miss the opportunity to team with him and others to raise
the credibility of new energy research and development.

He
had also proposed to the Democratic presidential candidates in 2004 the establishment
of an Office for Unconventional Energy within the Department of Energy (DOE). During
a candidates' panel he orally presented the idea and three of the candidates
endorsed it. We can largely thank Gene that the DOE began reviewing
the cold fusion concept, something that would have been unthinkable during
the past fifteen years.

His “Universal
Appeal for New Energy” is posted on Google and on many websites.
Please read it. Its articulate expression is unmatched in our quest to give
this research a chance. He has been the standard-setter of our work,
providing a foundation for understanding the scientific principles and nomenclature
for the most promising concepts and categories.

His grasp of historical
analogues such as the development of aviation, relativity, quantum physics,
the Copernican revolution and the Enlightenment, as reported in Infinite
Energy, are inspiring
and prolific. His writings provide a deep and insightful understanding
of the historical patterns of scientific progress and censorship that we
now face in new energy research. I humbly defer to Mallove’s
writings and to the brilliant classic book by Thomas Kuhn, The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
about how mainstream scientists in any culture can be blind to new paradigms
of discovery.

When
it comes to changing worldviews, the scientists, alongside vested government,
industry, media and intellectual discourse can become the guardians to the
gates of outmoded thinking. More than anyone, Mallove gives this cultural
aberration, applied to new energy breakthroughs, fresh insight that will
endure for a very long time, particularly as the developments much too slowly
unfold—sometimes in direct contradiction even to the thinking of progressives
and environmentalists, who are imprisoned in scarcity consciousness.

The
tragedy of Eugene Mallove all the more inspires us to advance our mutual
cause. We must get the word out as quickly and widely as possible. Most
of us in the field believe that this murder was an assassination: he was
one of many of those pioneers who could make the greatest difference. This
mandates that, through strength in quality and numbers, the teams now forming
will ensure that the work will carry on regardless of the personal fates
of pioneers such as Gene. A full investigation of the murder, still
pending, will hopefully shed light on its true motive.

Novelist
Mignon McCarthy said, "Each society honors its live conformists and
dead troublemakers." I believe that the world will remember Dr.
Mallove as one of the greatest scientific pioneers of history, a Galileo
of our time.

In
later chapters, we’ll look more deeply into how to overcome the stubbornness
of those who call themselves “scientists” who refuse to look
at new phenomena that appear to violate their own precepts of reality. The
scientists, as we shall see, can be allies or adversaries in our quest.
For example, the climate scientists and leading environmentalists have helped
us create a challenging new mandate to keep carbon in the ground. This
is good. But most physicists still resist the notion of free energy,
even though the evidence is overwhelming. They too are of the no-free-lunch
school. We shall have to bring more and more scientists, environmentalists
and progressives on-board.